Plates and Plate Boundaries
plates
  • 1. Name the plate labelled with the letter B.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) Nazca Plate
C) South American Plate
D) North American Plate
E) Pacific Plate
plates
  • 2. Name the plate labelled with the letter D.
A) North American Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) Pacific Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Nazca Plate
plates
  • 3. Name the plate labelled with the letter F.
A) Nazca Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Pacific Plate
D) African Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
plates
  • 4. Name the plate labelled with the letter G.
A) Nazca Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Antarctic Plate
D) Eurasian Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
plates
  • 5. Name the plate labelled with the letter I.
A) Eurasian Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) South American Plate
D) North American Plate
E) African Plate
plates
  • 6. Name the plate labelled with the letter J.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) South American Plate
C) Eurasian Plate
D) Indo-Australian Plate
E) Nazca Plate
plates
  • 7. Name the plate labelled with the letter L.
A) Indo-Australian Plate
B) Antarctic Plate
C) African Plate
D) Nazca Plate
E) North American Plate
plates
  • 8. Name the plate labelled with the letter N.
A) Antarctic Plate
B) Eurasian Plate
C) Nazca Plate
D) South American Plate
E) Indo-Australian Plate
boundaries convergent
  • 9. The boundary formed by the collision of two lithospheric plates
A) divergent boundary
B) transform boundary
C) convergent boundary
boundaries transform
  • 10. The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
A) transform boundary
B) divergent boundary
C) convergent boundary
boundaries divergent
  • 11. The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
A) transform boundary
B) convergent boundary
C) divergent boundary
  • 12. The solid, outer layer of the Earth that consists of the the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle
A) asthenosphere
B) inner core
C) outer core
D) lithosphere
  • 13. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is what kind of boundary
A) convergent
B) transform
C) submergent
D) divergent
  • 14. An example of transform boundary can be found between the
A) African and South American Plates
B) Indian and Eurasian Plates
C) Pacific and North American plates
  • 15. What pushes the plates in different directions
A) current events
B) air currents
C) ocean currents
D) convection currents
  • 16. Alfred Wegener is known for developing what scientific theory?
A) Theory of Continental Drift
B) Theory of Plate Tectonics
C) Trench Theory
D) The Big Bang Theory
  • 17. If the mantle cooled and convection currents stopped moving...
A) All of these
B) The plates would stop moving
C) earthquakes would shake the crust
D) volcanoes would erupt
  • 18. Converging boundaries create
A) mountains
B) bassalt
C) fossils
D) new sea floor
  • 19. The Earth is believed to be _____ years old.
A) 4.5 million
B) 4.5 thousand
C) 14 billion
D) 4.5 billion
  • 20. Oceanic crust is formed by seafloor spreading
A) true
B) false
  • 21. The Mid-Atlantic is closest to ________
A) California
B) India
C) The Pacific Plate
D) Maine
  • 22. The Indian Plate and the Eurasian plate form a transform boundary
A) true
B) false
  • 23. The Himalayan continue to get taller
A) true
B) false
  • 24. There is no evidence that Pangaea ever existed
A) true
B) false
  • 25. The discovery of _____________ lead to the Theory of Plate Tectonics
A) Mountain ranges
B) The continents
C) The Earth's Core
D) Seafloor Spreading
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